bonzobanana on 15 April 2014
You can see the seasonal pattern of hardware sales. May is actually the lowest month, possibly the worst possible time to launch a game but I think as you can see you shouldn't use current figures to predict sales figures for later in the year. It will start to recover in September and those November and December spikes are huge. So far 2014 is pretty evenly matching 2013, just a tiny bit below.
There are 40-50 million console and handheld sales up for grabs worldwide from here to the new year. Obviously that includes 3DS, Vita, PSP, wii, wii u, 360, xbone, ps4 and ps3, Many of those formats are merely ticking over and running down. PS4 and 3DS are huge formats that will take a huge share. The rest are somewhere in the middle.
